print email comment close Time 100: John Maynard Keynes URL: http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/keynes.html Description: Profile of this British economist whose "radical idea that governments should spend money they don't have may have saved capitalism." Includes a discussion of his background ("a Cambridge University don with a flair for making money ... [and] the darling of Virginia Woolf and her intellectually avant-garde Bloomsbury Group) and his influential publications. Part of Time magazine's series on the most important people of the 20th century. Author: Reich, Robert B. Publisher: Time Inc. Extra Keywords depression General Theory of Employment, Interest Money Library of Congress Subject Headings: Economics Economists Government spending policy -- United States Keynes, John Mayard, 1883-1946 People LII Database Information: Record 21754 created by Maria Brandt on 06/05/2006 Last modification on 06/06/2006 Published: 06/08/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/21754